Video

Video Projects

Video is a creative way for me to explore an ever-expanding range of interests from organizing and activism to visual arts, music, agroecology and food sovereignty. I direct, produce, edit and shoot videos independently and in collaboration with other videographers and film makers. My videos are often done for and with organizations I support; many are about my family.

Most of my work is available online on Vimeo and YouTube (see links below); a few pieces are only on DVDs.

People and Potatoes
El pueblo y la papa / Runakuna papakuna

This is an ongoing project exploring history, farming, and community - potatoes as a down-to-earth (couldn't resist) way to look at colonization, resistance, globalization, diversity, autonomy, and people to people connections. So far, I've filmed in New Hampshire and Peru, but the potato has traveled all over the world!

Trailer on Vimeo

Peruvian "Tabla de Sarhua" painting of people in traditional Andean dress harvesting potatoes.

Sacks of potatoes in a market in the Peruvian Andes.

Black pre-Columbian ceramic jug in the shape of a potato with a monkey as the handle.

Garden with a stone wall and a green hill in the distance.

Children's book. The title is "La Papa" and on the cover is a picture of a potato person running and holding a globe.

Yellow bowl with seven differently shaped potatoes. Three are purple, two are yellow, one is red and one is red and yellow.

The Brides March
El desfile de las novias

In 2013 I made a short video with versions in English and in Spanish to publicize the New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence Brides March. I am currently filming and editing a longer video about the March, which continues to take place on September 26 in New York City, commemorating Gladys Ricart and other women, children and men who have died at the hands of abusive partners.

English & Spanish s horts on Vimeo

Women dressed in wedding gowns marching behind a black banner.

Wedding dress with copy of Daily News front page article about the death of Gladys Ricart.

Many wedding dresses hanging from a railing.

Pink and purple poster for The Brides March with a picture of Gladys Ricart in her wedding dress.

Josie Ashton wearing her wedding dress with a copy of the news article saying "Bride Shot Dead."

Women in wedding gowns marching with signs.

Art Work

For the past 12 years, I've been making short videos (from 3 to 15 minutes) about my sister, the sculptor Wendy Klemperer, and other artists. Wendy is a sculptor, working primarily in welded steel, using rebar and other scrap metal to create life-size and larger animal sculptures. The process of cutting and welding is visually (and aurally) striking, as is the labor involved in moving and installing the larger works.

A rt videos on Vimeo

MORE ART VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE
Kimball Island Fawn
Four Heads Art Fair on Governor's Island

A large steel silhouette of a deer in front of trees and bushes in autumn.

A Person in a helmet and long jacket cutting metal at night next to a metal bird sculpture.

A large welded steel sculpture of a leaping tiger on a snow-covered lawn. There are trees and utility wires in the background.

A sculpture of a porcupine with long quills next to a green bush in front of woods.

Big white barnlike building at night. There is a large, unfinished welded steel sculpture of a bison in front.

Large steel cutout of a leaping wolf hanging from a metal gantry in front of a red garage.

Chemistry

This is a more recent project about my parents, who met in a college chemistry lab in 1948, and stayed committed to each other and to science for the rest of their lives.

Excerpts to come soon!

Black and white photo of a young white woman standing in front of a vista of hills and mountains.

Black and white photo of a young white man standing in front of a vista of mountains.

Black and white photo of a young white woman standing at a bench in a laboratory.

Black and white photo of three white men in a laboratory with large machines.

Black and white photo of a young white man and a young white woman standing beside laboratory equipment.

Black and white photo of a young white woman working at a bench in a laboratory.

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